2019/09/11 by Ingrid Hotz, Roxana Bujack, Hotz, Ingrid +5
Computer Science · #Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques #Data Visualization and Analytics #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Graphics (cs.GR) #Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC) #Topological and Geometric Data Analysis
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1909.04835
openalex publication_date 2019/09/11 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Mathematical concepts and tools have shaped the field of visualization in fundamental ways and played a key role in the development of a large variety of visualization techniques. In this chapter, we sample the visualization literature to provide a taxonomy of the usage of mathematics in visualization, and to identify a fundamental set of mathematics that should be taught to students as part of an introduction to contemporary visualization research. Within the scope of this chapter, we are unable to provide a full review of all mathematical foundations of visualization; rather, we identify a number of concepts that are useful in visualization, explain their significance, and provide references for further reading.